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The plague by Rebecca Reid

Posted on August 7, 2020June 9, 2021

Rebecca Reid is a member of Straw Dog, a farmer and writer living in Leverett on a cooperative farm.  She has never submitted anything for publication, except a poem when Read More

Diaspora by Frederick E Steinway

Posted on August 6, 2020June 9, 2021

Frederick E Steinway is a resident of the north-central Massachusetts bioregion. Diaspora is offered here as a unifying concept to explain or envision effects in the biosphere of ongoing geophysical Read More

2020 Hindsight by Epi Bodhi

Posted on August 5, 2020June 9, 2021

Epi Bodhi, Amherst, MA, Straw Dog Member, has been writing poetry since she was young. In the third grade, she was accused of plagiarism for her poem snowflake. Her love Read More

What Lies Beneath by Christopher Queen

Posted on August 4, 2020June 9, 2021

Christopher Queen lives in Franklin County and writes with Ruth Flohr’s creative writing group in Wendell. He has taught world religions, served as a university dean of students, and publishes Read More

Botch Job by Saul Huggins

Posted on August 3, 2020June 9, 2021

Saul Huggins: Mid-fifties, spent most of the past twenty years self-employed and because of that happy fact have been able to travel around a fair bit, sometimes to other countries. Not Read More

Crown of the Rosary – Easter 2020 by Suzanne Rancourt

Posted on August 2, 2020June 9, 2021

Suzanne S. Rancourt, Abenaki/Huron descent, is a multi-modal artist with degrees in psychology and creative writing. Her book, Billboard in the Clouds, Curbstone Press / 2nd print at NU Press, received Read More

Encounter by Lynn Olson

Posted on August 1, 2020June 9, 2021

Lynn Olson: I moved to the Valley from Wisconsin, where I was happily retired. After an old college friend found me online, we bought an 1894 farmhouse and adopted a Read More

Corona, you have laid me bare by Morning Star Chenven

Posted on July 31, 2020June 9, 2021

Morning Star Chenven is a writer/musician/ choral director/mother/ grandmother. She is passionate about reversing climate change, singing in the duo “Moonlight and Morning Star,” leading The Wendell Community Chorus. She Read More

New Day New World by Suzann Heron

Posted on July 30, 2020June 9, 2021

Suzann Heron: A resident of Franklin Co. and new Straw Dog member, I find myself rather driven to writing. Writing is saving me at this time. It’s the lifeline I’m using Read More

Proper Usage During a Pandemic by Marian Kent

Posted on July 29, 2020June 18, 2021

Marian Kent is the author of three poetry collections, Heart Container, SUPERPOWERS or: More Poems About Flying, and Responsive Pleading. She lives in Easthampton (Hampshire County), Massachusetts with her family. Read More

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